Wild and crazy thought of the day:

What if Israel made an incredibly lop-sided deal with Hamas to free 1027 Palestinian prisoners for releasing 1 Gilad Shalit, just before Israel lets missiles and bunker-buster bombs rain on Iran; and the U.S. at the same time, began forming the pretexts for war on Iran? After all you wouldn't want Gilad in Hamas' hands, just before attempting to "...cut the head off the snake" (in Saudi Arabia's words) that is Iran.

Out of the 1027, why would Israel cut short the life sentences of 280 mass murderers responsible for hundreds of Israeli deaths? Because they are going to end up bombing Gaza and likely killing many of these terrorists anyways.

That's my crazy thought for the day; my theory. No matter what happens - interesting times directly ahead. Ezekiel 38, coming soon.

US Gives Israel Green Light For Iran Strike - Alex Jones' Infowars
Fabricated terror plot provides pretext for intervention following Panetta’s October 3 Tel Aviv visit.

"Unusual" meeting between US, Iran over plot - CBS News
Obama would not say whether Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, knew of the alleged plan. Yet he called it part of a pattern of "dangerous and reckless behavior" by the Iranian government and said people within that government were aware of a murder-for-hire plot.

The U.S. considers it an attempted act of terrorism.

Missing Libya Missiles Find Their Way to Gaza
Some of the thousands of surface-to-air missiles that have gone missing since the collapse of the Gadhafi regime in Libya have now turned up just miles from the Israeli border.



Ezekiel 38:
⁵ Persia [aka Iran], Ethiopia, and Libya will join you, too, with all their weapons.

 Isaiah 41:

 ⁸ “But as for you, Israel my servant,
      Jacob my chosen one,
      descended from Abraham my friend,
 ⁹ I have called you back from the ends of the earth,
      saying, ‘You are my servant.’
   For I have chosen you
      and will not throw you away.
 ¹⁰ Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
      Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.
   I will strengthen you and help you.
      I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
 ¹¹ “See, all your angry enemies lie there,
      confused and humiliated.
   Anyone who opposes you will die
      and come to nothing.
 ¹² You will look in vain
      for those who tried to conquer you.
   Those who attack you
      will come to nothing.
 ¹³ For I hold you by your right hand—
      I, the Lord your God.

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Saudis, U.S. trade charges with Iran over plot
"There could have been some contact on this with the Quds Force, but the idea that this was some sort of directed, vetted, fully thought-through plot, approved at high levels in Tehran leadership I think defies credulity,"

Security Official: Shalit Deal will Spill Blood
A senior security official with the IDF, who was involved in the capture of many terrorists over the years, said on Wednesday that the deal to bring back Gilad Shalit is dangerous to Israel.

Setting the stage for a war on Iran
The announcement yesterday that Iran planned the assassination of the Saudi and Israeli Ambassadors to the US  is just too much of a stretch to be believable. Would Iran really risk their nuclear weapons program by starting a war now? What is President Obama up to one year prior to a US election he looks destined to lose? Or is Iran already nuclear weapons capable and willing to instigate an Ezekiel 38 war?

8 Unanswered questions over the alleged Iranian assassination plot
It has the ring of a far-fetched Hollywood thriller and even the senior law enforcement official involved in the investigation admitted to journalists that the alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US did not fit with what was known about the methods and practices of the supposed perpetrators, the Quds force of the Revolutionary Guards.

Alleged Iran plot could have been trigger for war in Middle East
Robert Baer, a former CIA agent with long experience of observing the QF, said: "This stinks to holy hell. The Quds Force are very good. They don't sit down with people they don't know and make a plot. They use proxies and they are professional about it. If Kassim Suleimani was coming after you or me, we would be dead. This is totally uncharacteristic of them."

The forgotten Christians of the East
It is unclear what either Western governments or Western churches think they are achieving by turning a blind eye to the persecution and decimation of Christian communities in the Muslim world.

Revelation 6:

  ⁹ When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. ¹⁰ They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” ¹¹ Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

DEBKAfile, Sinai militias cut Egypt-Israel trade ties amid declining security
Sunday night, Oct. 9, a Coptic demonstration outside the state TV station to protest the authorities' failure to protect their churches from radical Islamic attacks ended with 24 dead of whom 17 were Copts and more than 200 injured. The Copts, who make up more than one-tenth of Egypt's 85 million inhabitants, were then attacked by hoodlums wielding clubs, stones and machetes. But the security forces turned their guns on the Copts and drove tanks against them – not the rowdies shouting Islam, Islami!

Yom Kippur drill: IDF simulates war call-up
The army decided to hold the exercise in the backdrop of recent developments in the Middle East.

Joel 3:

⁹ Say to the nations far and wide:
“Get ready for war!
Call out your best warriors.
Let all your fighting men advance for the attack.
¹⁰ Hammer your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
¹¹ Come quickly, all you nations everywhere.
Gather together in the valley.”

And now, O Lord, call out your warriors!

 

Russia, China veto UN resolution against Syria
Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against Damascus if it fails to halt crackdown against civilians defeated by 9:2 vote with four abstentions. Russia and China vote against sanctions.

Report: Assad threatens to attack Tel Aviv in case of NATO strike - Ynetnews
In meeting with Turkish FM, Syrian president discusses possibility of NATO strike, says 'I won't need more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets to Golan to fire at Tel Aviv'

 Isaiah 14:

²⁴ The LORD Almighty has sworn,

   “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,
   and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
²⁵ I will crush the Assyrian in my land;
   on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke will be taken from my people,
   and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

 ²⁶ This is the plan determined for the whole world;
   this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
²⁷ For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?
   His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

Damascus No More

One of the world's most ancient, continuously inhabited cities could become a radioactive wasteland in our day (or perhaps even: "today").

DEBKAfile, Assad holds Tel Aviv hostage against Turkish, NATO attack on Syria
Syria, Iran and Hizballah have charted a coordinated military operation for flattening metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel's financial, industrial and cultural center, with thousands of missiles launched simultaneously by all three - plus the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami firing from the Gaza Strip.

Israel reacted with a warning of its own: If a single Syrian missile explodes in Tel Aviv, Damascus will be first to pay the price, and if the missile offensive persists, one Syrian town after another will be destroyed.

This of course could be followed by any or all of Ezekiel 38, Zechariah 12, Joel 3, Isaiah 11:14-16, Psalm 83 et al. One thing is clear: the end of this age is very near.

Isaiah 17:

  ¹ A prophecy against Damascus:  

 “See, Damascus will no longer be a city

   but will become a heap of ruins.

Erdogan playing with fire - Ynetnews
Erdogan should not be surprised to see a Turkish or Israeli pilot, who suddenly feel threatened, pressing the button and firing the missile. The distance between provocation and a regional flare-up could be several seconds long.
 
DEBKAfile, Turkish warships harass Israeli freighters. Israeli missile boats off Cyprus
Increasingly assertive Turkey is setting the scene for clashes in the eastern Mediterranean.

Hamas: 'Resistance' against Israel is only option left for Palestinians
Hamas leader Khaled Meshal told an international conference in Iran on Saturday that "resistance" was the only option left for the Palestinians.

Why do human rights groups ignore Palestinians’ war of words? - The Washington Post
The real obstacle to long-term peace is the endless and overwhelming words of hate and incitement to genocide effectively spread to Arabs and Palestinians. One example is the textbooks given to millions of children in Saudi Arabia, distributed in the Arab world and beyond, that label Jews “monkeys and pigs.” This continues to foment discord, radicalism and violence.

Powerful Words

Romans 8:
⁹ But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) ¹⁰ And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. ¹¹ The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
 ¹² Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. ¹³ For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. ¹⁴ For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

 Assassinated cleric a charismatic figure in al-Qaeda’s shadowy leadership
Mr. Awlaki was killed in an assassination strike by U.S. missile-firing drones operating over strife-torn Yemen, Yemeni officials said on Friday.

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IAF jets circled over Turkish ship - Ynetnews
According to a report published Friday in the Turkish newspaper Watan Daily, two F-15 jets passed through Cyprus' Greek and Turkish airspace and approached the Turkish coastline, while ignoring air controllers' warnings in north Cyprus, which is considered a Turkish territory.

Israeli jets fly low over Turkish gas exploration ship
Turkish media reports Israeli F-15 jets and helicopter "harassed" Turkish ship exploring for gas in disputed area of Mediterranean off Cyprus coast.

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The Religion of Peace and Tranquility

Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death: Nadarkhani Refuses to Convert from Christianity
Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who is facing the death penalty, again refused to convert to Islam to save his life.

Egypt uncovers Libyan SA-24 anti-air missiles and sea mines bound for Gaza
Helped by highly sophisticated contraband weapons smuggled out of Libya, Iran and Hizballah are getting the Palestinian Hamas equipped for another round of hostilities with Israel.

Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For
The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy Libya's huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles, following an ABC News report that large numbers of them continue to be stolen from unguarded military warehouses.

 Lies, lies and more lies from the 'religion of peace' 
(which is at war in practically every country it infects)

DEBKAfile, Palestinian and Israeli leaders cross swords as ME Quartet bids for new talks
Abbas said he would never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Turning to the Palestinian religious and historical affinity to Jerusalem, he called it the city of two Koranic prophets, Muhammad and Jesus, obliterating any Jewish ties to the city - and then accused Israel of restricting freedom of faith.

Listen to all the nations clapping with glee before Abbas' speech. Soon the clapping will stop, replaced with weeping and wailing. Punishment for the division of Israel's land is coming. If only there were more wisdom in the world. Instead we have a world full of scoffers and mockers and willful ignorance. Punishment will not be light.

Joel 3:

 ¹ “At the time of those events,” says the Lord,
      “when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,
 ² I will gather the armies of the world
      into the valley of Jehoshaphat.
   There I will judge them
      for harming my people, my special possession,
   for scattering my people among the nations,
      and for dividing up my land.

Zechariah 14:

³ Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past...

 ¹² And the Lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³ On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the Lord with great panic...

Netanyahu: Palestinians want a state without peace - Israel News, Ynetnews
Responding to Abbas’ fiery anti-Israel speech, PM Netanyahu tells UN General Assembly Palestinians want a state without peace; ‘Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established,’ he said

 I just don't get it. Bible prophecy very clearly states that Jerusalem would be the center of world attention at the end of the age. How amazing is that considering Jerusalem was left in desolation for nearly 2,000 years?!  Today we watched the United Nations start debate on the status of Jerusalem and on making it a dual capital of Israel and Palestine. With such amazing prophecy written in black and white and fulfilled in our day, why don't more people believe in the God of the Bible, the God of Israel?

Zechariah 12:
¹ This message concerning the fate of Israel came from the Lord: “This message is from the Lord, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundations of the earth, and formed the human spirit. ² I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. ³ On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves.

 Romans 1:¹⁸ But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. ¹⁹ They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.

²⁰ For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

DEBKAfile, No big UN showdown on Palestinian state this week. West Bank flare-up close
... the real diplomatic battle over the Palestinian drive for UN acceptance will not take place this week in the GA chamber where the speeches are made, but in Washington. The Obama administration has absurdly been maneuvered, or maneuvered itself, into the lead role for defeating the Palestinian claim for an independent state within the 1967 borders.

Five Wars, 63 Years of Terrorism, and Israel Survives Thrives

What will happen at the United Nations this week?
What will happen if Turkey decides to attack the oil rig off the Grecian part of Cyprus?
What will happen when the Israelis who have a defense pact with the Greeks respond?
How does NATO deal with two of its member nations going to war?

Don't believe the 'land for peace' deception - the LBL Beast of Islam wants to annihilate Israel

Palestinians Promote Genocide; NYTimes Silent
In a recent poll of Palestinian opinion – conducted by Stanley Greenberg, leading pollster for the Democratic party, in conjunction with the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, and sponsored by the Israel Project – 73% agreed with a quote from the Hamas charter on the need to kill all Jews...66% of Palestinians said that a two-state arrangement might be a starting point but that the Palestinian goal should be the annihilation of Israel.

Holy Land clerics bless Palestinian UN bid
A joint statement by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran priests pledged their "support for the diplomatic efforts being deployed to win international recognition for the State of Palestine... on the June 1967 borders with Jerusalem as our capital."

Zechariah 8:
³ “And now the Lord says: I am returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will be called the Holy Mountain.⁷ “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: You can be sure that I will rescue my people from the east and from the west. ⁸ I will bring them home again to live safely in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be faithful and just toward them as their God.

These extremely misguided Priests are going to have some explaining to do some day soon. Is the only God, the God of Jacob, going to be pleased with a proposal to hand Jerusalem over to Muslims? Is the God of Jacob going to live in Jerusalem with believers of Islam?! Ironically, beginning in the 11th century, the Catholic Pope started the Crusades to purge Jerusalem of Muslims. Now the Catholic church is welcoming Muslims to take control of Jerusalem - weird world we live in, indeed!

Have no fear - if you're a Believer in the God of Jacob, the only God will soon set everything straight, and anyone who refuses to believe in the plain language of the Bible will be destroyed. Pray for their souls while there is still time.

Zechariah 14:

  ¹² And the Lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³ On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand. 

Ezekiel 38? 

With Erdogan's eye on Israel's oil and gas fields, and his desire to strengthen alliances among the nations of the LBL Beast - it may give new clues regarding the Battle of Gog & Magog.


Hat tip to Legal Sodium...

The man who could trigger a world war
The West is just watching, while Erdogan creates pretexts for another Middle Eastern war: one in which Israel may be pitted not only against the neighbouring states of the old Arab League, but also Turkey, and Iran, and Hamas, and Hezbollah.

Israeli-Greek-Turkish air sea forces prepare for first Cypriot gas drilling 
As the rig moved into position opposite Cyprus, so too did two Turkish frigates. A Cypriot spokesman said Turkish warships and fighters had not entered the island's territorial waters.
Ankara questions the rights of Israel and Cyprus to drill for hydrocarbon reserves in the respective Exclusive Economic Zones marked out in an accord they concluded last year.

Good article In Plain Language: Do the Palestinian Deserve a State?

Will this new nation stand on its own two feet and do what it takes to support itself? Having taken tens of billions of dollars over the years from well-meaning donors, can the Palestinians learn to be self-sufficient, or are they entrenched in a welfare state, where someone else is always expected to pay the bills? And will they use the massive amounts of money thrown at them wisely? In the course of the last six decades, they have built no new hospitals or medical centers, no great universities, no respectable housing projects to relocate their poor who suffer in squalid refugee camps. Instead, after all their hierarchies of henchmen stole their share, the bulk of what was left was used for weapons and training for war.

Hamas Against PA Statehood Bid
The Palestinians can't even agree amongst themselves, so how will the UN bid next week advance peace?

US, Saudi relationship at risk - Yahoo! News
Speculation over the state of relations between Washington and Riyadh were stirred again this week when the former Saudi ambassador to Washington, Prince Turki al-Faisal, wrote a blistering New York Times opinion piece.

He warned that if Washington carried out its threat to use its veto to halt the Palestinian drive for statehood recognition in the UN Security Council, it would put at risk Saudi-US cooperation in numerous areas.

Egypt declares Camp David accords with Israel 'not a sacred thing
Egypt's prime minister triggered angry consternation in Israel on Thursday after declaring that the historic Camp David accords underpinning peace between the two countries were "not a sacred thing".

Sending David to slay the Philistine Giant
(haven't we read this before?)

Next Friday could be a day of Biblical proportions

Netanyahu set for UN diplomatic showdown
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will address the UN General Assembly on Friday next week, setting the stage for a potentially dramatic diplomatic showdown with the Palestinians. He will speak on the same day that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, is due to deliver a landmark speech calling on the global body to support Palestinian statehood.

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
"The claim … is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period."

Take care of the earth until it's destroyed by fire, but let's not be stupid about it.

Report: Turkish warplanes now able to fire at Israeli targets
Ankara's Star Gazete says country's new F-16 radar system modified to recategorize Israeli targets as hostile. Order said to come directly from PM Erdogan's office

 

Is Turkey's Erdogan about to attack Israel?

DEBKAfile, Israeli-Greek defense pact invoked versus Turkish naval and air movements 
Israel suspects that a Turkish attack on the Greek island will be the signal for Turkish military aggression against its oil and gas platforms located in the Mediterranean between Israel and Cyprus.

This news of Turkey potentially starting a play for Israel's oil and gas fields, reminds me of the start of Ezekiel 38:

¹⁰ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you will devise a wicked scheme. ¹¹ You will say, ‘Israel is an unprotected land filled with unwalled villages! I will march against her and destroy these people who live in such confidence! ¹² I will go to those formerly desolate cities that are now filled with people who have returned from exile in many nations. I will capture vast amounts of plunder, for the people are rich with livestock and other possessions now. They think the whole world revolves around them!’


Don't Erdogan's comments yesterday sound like he's saying: "They think the whole world revolves around them?"

Here's the story about Erdogan's comments again, this time from Haaretz:

Erdogan warns Israel: Turkey can send warships to east Mediterranean at any time
Turkish PM says Israel can not do whatever it wants in the eastern Mediterranean

We live in an amazing generation. We are within a week of the potential Palestinian UN Declaration, where they hope to take East Jerusalem's Temple Mount as their Nation's capital. Stay alert!

'Warships could be in E. Mediterranean at any moment
ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday Israel could not do whatever it wanted in the Eastern Mediterranean and that Turkish warships could be there at any moment.

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BBC News - Q&A: Palestinian statehood bid at the UN: Palestinian officials have launched a campaign to join the United Nations as a full member state. They will ask for international recognition on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as a capital.

Isaiah 26:

  ²⁰ Go home, my people,
      and lock your doors!
   Hide yourselves for a little while
      until the Lord’s anger has passed.
 ²¹ Look! The Lord is coming from heaven
      to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
   The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed.
      They will be brought out for all to see.

Israeli officials: Jordan hanging by a thread - Israel News, Ynetnews

While Israel continues to push for a resumption of peace talks, it is also increasing threats on the PA to stop its unilateral campaign. State officials told Ynet that Jerusalem is considering causing significant damage to the Palestinian economy in light of its great dependence on Israel in the labor and commerce fields.

The US has already threatened Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and President Mahmoud Abbas to cut financial aid if they promote unilateral moves.

"The Palestinians need to realize that unilateral steps on their part will be met with unilateral steps on Israel's part," one state official said. "If they go head to head against us, we will react.

Turkish PM throws weight behind Arab cause
Erdogan, addressing Arab foreign ministers in Cairo at the start of a Middle Eastern tour, said backing a bid for recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations later this month was "not an option but an obligation" for Arab states.

PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews
The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.

Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

Israel has 1.3 million Muslims who are Israeli citizens.

Israel's 'Diplomatic Tsunami' has arrived – CNN

 September 11, 2001

"Mohammad is God's apostle.  Those who follow him are ruthless
 to the unbelievers but merciful to one another"  Quran 48:29

Beyond Cairo Embassy Attack, Israel Senses Wider Siege
With its Cairo embassy ransacked, its ambassador to Turkey expelled and the Palestinians seeking statehood recognition at the United Nations, Israel found itself on Saturday increasingly isolated and grappling with a radically transformed Middle East where it believes its options are limited and poor.

No peace in this age.
Looters Steal Gadhafi's weapons, including surface-to-air missiles
HRW estimates there are 20,000 surface-to-air missiles in Libya, and many of those are now missing. Some are recent Russian-made SAMs, capable of shooting down aircraft flying as high as 11,000 feet.

"They have no military use in this war," said Bouckaert. "Gadhafi is not flying any airplanes, he's not flying any helicopters. So why are people looting these very powerful and dangerous missiles?"

Egyptians break into Israeli Embassy in Cairo
Israel ambassador and 80 embassy staff flee Egypt. Turkey's Erdogan has threatened to provide warship escort for the next Gaza aid ships, although he's tried to temper his statements recently.

Interestingly, just last Tuesday Israel's government gave the following statement:

"Israel's security situation has never been better," "We have deterrence in the north and the south, the Arab regimes around us are stable"
- Israeli defense minister's political adviser Amos Gilead, September 6, 2011

How quickly things changed.

DEBKAfile Erdogan drives toward armed clash with Israel. Oil and gas at stake
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel's shores.

Specific, unconfirmed terror threat received against New York or Washington - The Washington Post: U.S. officials are investigating a possible al-Qaeda plot to detonate a vehicle-borne bomb in Washington or New York City around Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Turkish PM: Warships will escort future aid vessels to Gaza: Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks broadcast on Al Jazeera television on Thursday.

US says to veto Palestinian bid at UN as Mitchell sees low chance to stop it

PA: US trying to threaten Palestinians to drop UN bid
He added that after the UN vote later this month, the state of Palestine will be under occupation and Israel would be held responsible – according to international agreements and conventions – fully responsible for health, education, security and other things. “The rest of the members of the UN would be obliged to help Palestine get rid of the occupation,” he explained.

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DEBKAfile, Israel's Home Front chief dose of reality flusters defense establishment: The defense minister's adviser Amos Gilead, hurriedly denied this prediction. "Israel's security situation has never been better," he said insisting "The Arab regimes around us are stable."

Noticed in Zechariah 12 last night that it says:

² I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah.

Israel is surrounded by hostile enemies bent on her destruction. The $64 million dollar question is:

Will a failed UN vote be the spark that ignites this whole thing?

United Nations General Assembly meeting starts September 20.

PA Exploits Obama in Campaign for UN - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News: The Palestinian Authority turns the tables on Obama, using an old speech to support its campaign for the UN recognition that he opposes.

China supports Palestinian UN bid | World | RIA Novosti: China on Wednesday announced its support for Palestine's plans to seek full membership in the United Nations next month.

IDF general: Likelihood of regional war growing - Israel News, Ynetnews: "It looks like the Arab Spring, but it can also be a radical Islamic winter," he said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

The "N" in NATO stands for Naive

Jihadists plot to take over Libya - Washington Times
A defense official familiar with jihadist strategy said Islamists likely will emerge in power from the turmoil expected after the demise of the Gadhafi regime and the West will be partly to blame. “We’re helping pave the way for them” through NATO airstrikes and other support, he said.

Setting up the Gog & Magog War

DEBKAfile, Iran runs nuclear missile payload tests, moves onto 60 pc fuel enrichment 
Last Wednesday, Aug. 31, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned, "Iran's attempts to build long-range missiles and nuclear weapons could lead unnamed countries to launch a pre-emptive attack."

Zechariah 12:

² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³ On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.

Obama Administration tries to delay Palestinian UN Vote
The Obama administration has begun a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a Palestinian plan to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, but it may already be too late, according to senior American officials and foreign diplomats. The vote is set for September 20.

Bring on the war of Gog and Magog I say.

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Concern rising about Iran military nuclear work
The International Atomic Energy Agency is "increasingly concerned" about possible activity in Iran to develop a nuclear payload for a missile, the IAEA said in a confidential report obtained by Reuters on Friday

Today's Laodicean Church is either too sleepy or too politically correct to tell you this

The Religion of the Beast and anti-Christ are in our midst

Quran, Surah 4:157

And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah ." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

 Written on the Abomination of Desolation on the Temple Mount:

O People of the Book! Do not exaggerate in your religion
nor utter aught concerning God save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of
Mary, was only a Messenger of God, and His Word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers, and say not 'Three' - Cease! (it is)
better for you! - God is only One God. Far be it removed from His transcendent majesty that He should have a son.

1 John 2:
22 Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. 23 Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

al Qaeda elements in Libya's transition council
NATO fighting with them in Libya, and against them in Afghanistan

US confirms al Qaeda members' role in rebel command. Qaddafi contacts them The Obama administration finally acknowledged Wednesday, Aug. 31 that al Qaeda elements had been fighting in Libyan rebel ranks in last week's capture of Tripoli.


Ezekiel 38:
⁵ Iran, Ethiopia, and Libya will join you, too, with all their weapons.

General: China Could Be Planning Surprise Missile Attack on United States
A retired Chinese general recently revealed that his country might be planning a surprise missile attack on the United States.

Bahrain: US Ally Kills Children… So When Is NATO Intervening?
 The Bahraini protests against the US and British-backed autocratic rulers have been continuing for nearly seven months despite the military intervention of Saudi Arabia in the Gulf island to crush the pro-democracy movement. Nearly 40 civilians have been killed by state forces since the uprising began in mid-February; thousands more have been injured, imprisoned, tortured or sacked from jobs.

Israel, Iran deploy warships in Red Sea
Israel's dispatch of two corvettes to bolster its naval forces in the Red Sea and Iran's deployment of a submarine and a warship in the same waters have heightened the tensions pervading the Middle East amid political upheaval and rivalries.

What do Muslims Really Celebrate on Id al-Fitr?
The Muslim holiday of Id al-Fitr is one of the two most important holidays on the Islamic calendar. Usually marked on the day after the last day of Ramadan, Id al-Fitr celebrates the end of the holy month of fasting. But it also has another meaning for Muslims that dates to the earliest days of Islam.

Syrian Weapons Sites Worry U.S., Israel - WSJ.com
The U.S. and Israel are closely monitoring Syria's suspected cache of weapons of mass destruction, fearing that terror groups could take advantage of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad to obtain blistering agents, nerve gas and long-range missiles, according to officials from both countries.

Blair’s Sister-in-Law Incites Muslims to ‘Liberate’ Jerusalem
Laura Booth, sister-in-law of Quartet envoy Tony Blair, has called on “Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt liberate Al-Quds [Jerusalem].”

Ezekiel 38 is brewing

⁷ “‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. ⁸ After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety. ⁹ You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land. 

 
'Palestine statehood only a step forward: Ahmadinehad

...The broadcast showed large crowds in major cities, carrying banners of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America."

"The recognition of an independent Palestinian government is not the ultimate goal... (but) only a step forward for the full liberation of the Palestinian land," Ahmadinejad said at Friday prayers at Tehran University.

"The Zionist regime is the hotbed for germs and cancerous cells. If they persist even in a very small parcel of the Palestinian land, they will move again... and harm everyone" in the region, he said in comments broadcast on television.  Ahmadinejad reiterated that the Holocaust was a "lie" which he said was used as an excuse for Israel's creation.

Ahmadinejad: Iran is determined to eradicate Israel
Iranian president says those who are for humanity should also be for eradicating Israel, since the 'Zionist regime is a symbol of suppression and discrimination.'

Sinai crisis could spark Egypt-Israel war - UPI.com
Israelis and Palestinians are observing an uneasy truce after five days of fighting in southern Sinai but the clashes underlined how a security crisis brewing since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was toppled Feb. 11 could explode into a wider conflict.

Hamas Ends ‘Ceasefire’ with Israel - Defense/Security - News - Israel National News: As the situation in southern Israel escalates, Hamas' military wing announces the artificial ceasefire with Israel is over.

 Was the ceasefire ever on?

The Lord Jesus must just squirm when he sees these things. I'll never ask forgiveness from a mere priest. I'll go directly to the King of Kings instead.

Priests to forgive abortion in Pope youth festival
"The Vatican already announced on August 11 that it had authorized a plenary, or full indulgence, to all the young people attending the celebrations. An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishment a person is due for sins that have been forgiven"

Sharia Enclaves in the West | FrontPage Magazine
"Islamist organizations are hard at work creating Muslim enclaves in the West, including right here in the United States. These efforts are designed to create Islamic autonomous areas, often with the expressed desire of incrementally bringing the host country completely under Sharia-based governance."

Obama and Erdogan grant Assad 15 days to finish uprising. Call-up in Turkey
Thursday night, Aug. 11, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to set Syrian President Bashar Assad the deadline of Aug. 27for extinguishing the popular uprising against his rule and starting to implement genuine democratic reforms.

White House Cleanses Israel from Website | The Weekly Standard

WARNING! - Is any world leader wise enough to listen?
The Bible warned 2,500 years ago that Jerusalem would be the center of controversy in the end ... and here we are.

Tragically, the vast majority are asleep like Sodom, and like Sodom, it won't end well for them.

East Jerusalem building plan draws World, Palestinian Ire
"PA says Israel trying to create facts on the ground, US calls construction 'illegitimate.'"

Zechariah 12:

 ² I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. ³ On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves...

⁸ On that day the Lord will defend the people of Jerusalem; the weakest among them will be as mighty as King David! And the royal descendants will be like God, like the angel of the Lord who goes before them! ⁹ For on that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. ¹⁰ “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.

PA Bemoans Jerusalem Construction
"“We are determined to defend the rights of our people and resist the occupation’s settler projects through legal means.”

Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem are technically 'disputed territories' under international law, and have been since their liberation from Jordan's illegal 17-year occupation of those sections of the British Mandate, which began in 1948. There has never been a 'Palestinian state' for Israel to occupy."

Why no outcry for Syria deaths?
"There have been more than 1,600 deaths in Syria at the hands of President Bashar Assad in recent weeks, which is a bigger death toll than the estimated 1,300 Arab fatalities during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, when the communities of the world sent 'peace' flotillas.

Where is the outcry now over the Arab deaths in Syria by a cruel and despotic regime?"

Palestinian Authority Forgets to Say 'Thank You'
"Philanthropists establish Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Department at Rambam, hoping to save more sick Arab children. PA is silent."

Economic Uncertainty Leading to Global Unrest
Chaos spreading.

Luke 21:

 ²⁶Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

 ²⁷And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Palestinians planning ‘unprecedented bloodshed’ after UN vote: Israeli foreign minister

"Mr. Lieberman drew his conclusions from intelligence reports and public statements by Palestinian officials."


In light of the time we're living in, this could be huge if this 'third intifada' happens. If anyone dares even to touch Israel after she's been 're-gathered' - look out! There's warnings in the Bible about doing that, but of course, like in Noah's day, nobody's listening or they think themselves just too darn smart to heed something like the Bible. Book of fairy tales in their minds - they'll soon see, but all too late.

Zechariah 9:

 ⁸ I will guard my Temple
      and protect it from invading armies.
   I am watching closely to ensure
      that no more foreign oppressors overrun my people’s land.

Zion’s Coming King

 ⁹ Rejoice, O people of Zion!
      Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!
   Look, your king is coming to you.
      He is righteous and victorious,
   yet he is humble, riding on a donkey—
      riding on a donkey’s colt.
 ¹⁰ I will remove the battle chariots from Israel
      and the warhorses from Jerusalem.
   I will destroy all the weapons used in battle,
      and your king will bring peace to the nations.
   His realm will stretch from sea to sea
      and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
 ¹¹ Because of the covenant I made with you,
      sealed with blood,
   I will free your prisoners
      from death in a waterless dungeon.
 ¹² Come back to the place of safety,
      all you prisoners who still have hope!
   I promise this very day
      that I will repay two blessings for each of your troubles.
 ¹³ Judah is my bow,
      and Israel is my arrow.
   Jerusalem is my sword,
      and like a warrior, I will brandish it against the Greeks.

 ¹⁴ The Lord will appear above his people;
      his arrows will fly like lightning!
   The Sovereign Lord will sound the ram’s horn
      and attack like a whirlwind from the southern desert.
 ¹⁵ The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will protect his people,
      and they will defeat their enemies by hurling great stones.
   They will shout in battle as though drunk with wine.
      They will be filled with blood like a bowl,
      drenched with blood like the corners of the altar.
 ¹⁶ On that day the Lord their God will rescue his people,
      just as a shepherd rescues his sheep.
   They will sparkle in his land
      like jewels in a crown.
 ¹⁷ How wonderful and beautiful they will be!
      The young men will thrive on abundant grain,
      and the young women will flourish on new wine.

S&P Downgrades US Debt
"Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's says it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating from a top AAA rating to AA+, the first debt downgrade in U.S. history."

Gathering the world's armies to the most important region in the universe

DEBKAfile, Russia: NATO close to military steps in Syria for beachhead to attack Iran
"Moscow's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin accused the Western alliance of planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the Assad regime 'with the long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran.'"

Revelation 16:

¹⁵ “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”

 ¹⁶ Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. 

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What other country would put up with this?

Iron Dome battery moved south after Gaza rocket escalation
"Barak's decision came after close to thirty rockets have been fired into Israel since the beginning of July."

Strange world we live in - Syria's massacring its people with tanks while NATO is bombing Gadhaffi?

The Orontes River runs red as Syrian anti-aircraft guns pound Hama

Netanyahu: Israel 'ready to negotiate Palestinian borders' - Telegraph

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has bowed to US pressure by agreeing for the first time that a Palestinian state should roughly follow the contours of the 1967 ceasefire lines separating the West Bank from Israel.

PM would accept pre-’67 lines as baseline for talks - JPost
"Jerusalem, while not endorsing the 1967 lines, would agree to language that would say that Israel recognizes that this is the position of the international community. The willingness to show this degree of flexibility, the official said, would be contingent on the Palestinians demonstrating flexibility of their own and endorsing language nodding at recognition of Israel as a Jewish state."

Arab unrest, high food prices cast pall on Ramadan

From Syria to Libya and Egypt, the uprisings and unrest gripping the Arab world have cast a pall on the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when the traditional focus on piety will likely be eclipsed by more unrest.

Egypt's political risks ahead

No one doubts the army will ensure a free and fair vote, nor do most question that it wants to quit day-to-day government.
But many protesters believe the army, with its vast business interests and which provided Egypt’s rulers for six decades, will seek to keep a hand on the levers of power. This has fueled tension on the streets and sometimes violent clashes.

Syria: UN Security Council in talks as tanks shell Hama

The protests came as the UN Security Council held a first session of emergency talks on the deadly crackdown, with Western powers again demanding a condemnation of the violence, but the closed session ended with no agreement.

A managed Syrian transition has failed

In recent weeks, the Obama administration’s approach to Syria could be summed up in two words: managed transition. The preferred solution to the Syrian crisis was to try to reach out to members of both the opposition and the power structure simultaneously to try to begin a real dialogue about Syria’s future. That now looks increasingly unlikely, and the prospect of what Washington fears most—sectarian civil war—is increasingly possible.

Kahlili: Iranian missiles could soon reach U.S. shores - Washington Times
"While America focuses on its internal problems and its involvement in three wars and the world focuses on the global economy, Iran is progressing on three dangerous fronts: nuclear weapons, armed missiles and naval capability."

Syria: scores dead as Assad troops launch major tank offensive - Telegraph
"Bodies littered the streets of Hama on Sunday as the Syrian army launched major tank offensives across the country in a fresh bid to crush the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad."